Show AMONG AFRIC l CANNIBALS Traveling By Canoe Among the Sav Say Savages Savages ages of Free State At t last we reached the River Thin and following along alons the bank until It ft was navigable we came to the great grest district of the says Magazine Here were fresh Sights and more excitement ment Having procured ca canoed Canoe noe I sent ent my m porters back retaining only my m three faithful boys Our boat men were the notorious cannibals of the very different from the pg mies these thes were fine stalwart men many of ot them considerably over sIx sis feet carrying themselves with the most mo t aris aria bearing imaginable As canoe canoa men they could hardly be excelled each boat contained from ten to fifteen men who with their long Ions tapering paddles I made the heavy dugout literally dance through the water It was a most de I sensation after atter the toilsome pain I of walking through the thicket to be i comfortably reclining while whizzed along I at about eight miles an hour for the cur rent rem being betoff strong In ln our favor we often otten quite q that speed One sat ad t all day dar darand T j and gazed along the bunks banks of this mar marvelous t rebus river Sometimes Som mes elephants elep sport sportIng Ing themselves In the shallow n the bank would for a 3 moment or two be visible forest antelOpe too were ef eC eften f ten seen having thE r evening drink while all the while the monkeys chattered re In la lathe Inthe Inthe the trees and screamed at us as U wd w iv passed The villages of ot the B were uro mo t curious the houses consisting ot o tall structures attaining al height of ot from froia fifteen fitt to twenty tent feet teet As At Ast we t e approached the drums announced us usand usand usand and crowds of or natives naked cannibals came to the river bank to us Ev Evry Evor or cry ry warrior carried his knife and spear both most deadly looking weapons and when shen I landed they the alway wa surrounds surround me walked round and round looking me up and down no doubt counting up u theft th possibility of or a good meal Their Ian g guage was strange to me rue u or I might hY heard boord some extraordinary 1 remarks as u lf tt was their hungry looks were wore quito quite enough to make me feel teel a little at times tim I was generally genen y ablo abl to 10 find an Interpreter reter who would Inquired of the people for tor me for tor a suitable place to pitch my tent teat and this was always most courteously given by y the chief him Aim himself self generally in the th middle of the tha I ag ge Sometimes they th Y would ouId bring me quan titles of ot food sweet potatoes banana jams etc et and und In tn exchange 1 I gave gays thir little trinkets such as beads whistles knives etc Fifteen days d s i paddle addle on the river brought us to the chief sta tion of Or tho vito Belgians on the tile Congo From Front hence the steamers run to the tile coast a after waiting a few days wo we aad I T nr procured mir l a e |